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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (R) and Jared Kushner (L), U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior White House adviser and son-in-law attend U.S.-led workshop in Manama, Bahrain on June 26, 2019. [BNA – Pool – Anadolu Agency] by Mohammed Jamil While the Gaza Strip is being destroyed, its people displaced, killed, and starved in the course of an ongoing genocide that has claimed the lives of more than 66,000 martyrs and left tens of thousands wounded, the hyenas race to seize the spoils of devastated Gaza after the war, cloaking their schemes in dazzling humanitarian slogans. In reality, these are colonial…

credit: Politicians Illustration Pack By Azad Essa India-Israel ties are here to stay. Over the past several months, high profile leaders from the Indian Congress Party have issued statements or made comments about how Narendra Modi’s government has betrayed India’s anti-colonial history by remaining ‘silent’ on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The accusation of ‘silence’ is a peculiar one, because it implies avoidance, or passivity. But India hasn’t been a passive spectator to the genocide. It has charted a new path and cultivated closer ties with Israel. But beyond the repeated accusation of ‘silence’, many of the statements from Congress leaders, including Sonia…

Image depicts an 1892 editorial cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne for Punch magazine  By Iqbal Jassat  Is Tony Blair the Cecil Rhodes of Palestine?  The notion of British imperialist and war-monger Tony Blair being imposed as governor of Gaza, is as repulsive as the colonial-era of white supremacists dictating and controlling the lives of indigenous natives. In South Africa we recall the disgust University of Cape Town (UCT) students held against Cecil Rhodes and who led the campaign to topple his statue that used to sit, head in hand, looking out over the UCT’s rugby grounds. They viewed it as…

Tribute to Shaheed Sayed Hassen Nasrallah on the Anniversary of his Martyrdom  By Iqbal Jassat  September 27th 2025 marks a year since the illegal occupying power of Palestine unleashed its devilish bombs targeting Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut. A day later Hezbollah confirmed the martyrdom of its Secretary General, Sayyid Hassen Nasrallah (RA). A few weeks later, as testament of the resilience and organisational capacity of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem was appointed to lead the movement and continue the legacy of Shaheed Sayed Hassen Nasrallah. The Zionist regime led by war criminal Mileikowsky known as Benjamin Netanyahu and his criminal gang…

By Iqbal Suleiman On the Friday 26th September 2024, the settler Zionist Israeli State used 85 “bunker busting” bombs which weigh between 900 to 2000kg, 80 tons in total to assassinate Hassan Nasrallah. Today marks his first martyrdom anniversary. Millions of people all over the world are commemorating his martyrdom. Never in the history of humankind has so much force or anything close to it been used to kill one man. According to Norman Finkelstein, the foremost chronicler of the Palestinian liberation struggle and a leading contemporary public intellectual, Hassan Nasrallah was unlike other leaders in the Arab and Muslim world,…

By Iqbal Jassat Pic Courtesy: Shutterstock Almost six months since it was discovered and exposed that a number of South African journalists had been on a paid junket to Israel, the office of the Press Ombud has made an important finding against the publications. In an interesting turn of events that hold huge lessons for media platforms in relation to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the need to be mindful of not being played by the Zionist regime’s lobbyists, the industry owes a debt of gratitude to sharp-eyed consumers. In this case, as in previous matters related to an abuse…

By Saadia Gani The Maghreb Sumud Flotilla is part of an international convoy of nearly 50 vessels sailing to Gaza to break Israeli blockade and deliver much needed aid to its children and people . These fifty ships are sailing towards Gaza., carrying no weapons political manifesto, no race for political power or mayoral position . They embody the voice of humanity carrying brotherhood and love, offering support , food, and medicine. Tney carry the peaceful but thunderous message that the people of the world have not turned their eyes and hearts away from Gaza. It is a flotilla of…

For David Hirst, real journalism meant relentless hard work and courage in facing power as he did with many leaders in the region including late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat By Victoria Brittain My friend David Hirst’s quiet demeanour and scholarly manner belied a fierce commitment to powerful and dispassionate reporting on the Middle East David Hirst, who died on Monday in a hospital in France, was the outstanding journalist the Guardian was lucky enough to have, writing for the paper from the inside of the Middle East’s dramatic transformations over more than four decades. No western foreign correspondent has ever had…

Pic Courtesy: NewzRoom Afrika By Hassen Lorgat Helen Zille has failed to cross the rubicon on Palestine and like the Groot Krokodil she will feel the heat for her double standards. In an interview with Newzroom Afrika’s Xoli Mngambi’s question on Israel’s  on Gaza she replied as follows:  Genocide is a vey big word. I haven’t been to Gaza and I don’t know/ But I certainly do know that Hamas has spent all its energy to obliterate the state of Israel. Bernie Sanders too once shied away from using the word, genocide has a week ago, come around to admitting that Israel…

Pic Courtesy: Common Dreams By Attorney Ziyaad Ebrahim Patel International Human Rights Lawyer and Lawfare Advocate http://www.zepattorneys.co.za The conscionable world have been aware of the ongoing reality of the genocide of  Palestinians in Gaza, the continued belligerent occupation of the West Bank and thousands of lives lost in the middle east region over the last 24 months, as Israel continues the perpetration of egregious crimes in complete violation of international law and humanitarian law. It is trite that Western countries have for decades and more supported, aided and abetted the impunity, Israel unleashes through the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on…